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i look at nixon's school papers which are preserved in the nixon library, to see if nixon had so was into shakespeare and ancient greek. he had read julius caesar but he totally missed the boat. he never got the idea hubris come in and those, that was all false money. interestingly nixon's brother told me grandma millhouse had warned him against hating enemies. she was a quaker and she said that will get you in trouble. it was a lesson lost on nixon. he just couldn't get it. it's like nixon had a sense of destiny in virgil's play. if i do that destined to be a great man to even the he was shy and lonely, he was going to be that great men. there's a very affecting scene. a lawyer in new york, somewhat of an odd couple, nixon and leonard. leonard was a new york jazz musician from a jewish guy who had voted for kennedy and yet he and nixon were good pals. they went down to florida together to give a speech and they were supposed to spend the night in a new housing development. nixon had great political instinct. the last second, the owners of this new, gorgeous nixon to sum up promote t
i look at nixon's school papers which are preserved in the nixon library, to see if nixon had so was into shakespeare and ancient greek. he had read julius caesar but he totally missed the boat. he never got the idea hubris come in and those, that was all false money. interestingly nixon's brother told me grandma millhouse had warned him against hating enemies. she was a quaker and she said that will get you in trouble. it was a lesson lost on nixon. he just couldn't get it. it's like nixon had...
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nixon. eisenhower is pat nixon the untold story. all three of these works are set to be released next year, paul carter writes in his preface, quote, i am a trial attorney. i am quite aware that speak louder than words and. i know the thoroughness required to assemble evidence presenting it layer by layer until the full story emerges. that's what i've done with richard nixon. california's native son. and now it's time for you to be the judge. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please join in welcoming paul carter. thank you. thank you, jim. thank you to all of the incredible staff here for putting this evening together. i really appreciate it. and, you know, let's just get started. richard nixon as california's native son, he was born hearing linda in a house. his father built a few steps where i'm standing. he was raised in whittier and graduated whittier college. and then went off to duke law school. we're all pretty much familiar with that aspect of his life and that story. but no
nixon. eisenhower is pat nixon the untold story. all three of these works are set to be released next year, paul carter writes in his preface, quote, i am a trial attorney. i am quite aware that speak louder than words and. i know the thoroughness required to assemble evidence presenting it layer by layer until the full story emerges. that's what i've done with richard nixon. california's native son. and now it's time for you to be the judge. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, please...
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nixon. defeated by john f. kennedy in 1960, and for governor of california in 1962, he seemed finished that was all but forgotten. but in less than two years, he was on his way again, toward one of the most important offices in the world. there are two clues to this modern political miracle. in his origins on a farm in yorba linda, california, and in statements where he has expressed his concepts on the role of the presidency and his views on the position of government. ♪ in discussing his new administration, richard nixon stated, the presidency is a place where priorities are set and goals determined. the president's chief function is to lead to put the right , people in charge, provide them with guidance and direction, and let them do their job. ♪ at the moment of his great electoral triumph, he told the american people, the great --ective administration objective of this administration at the outset will be to bring the american people together. this will be an open administration, op
nixon. defeated by john f. kennedy in 1960, and for governor of california in 1962, he seemed finished that was all but forgotten. but in less than two years, he was on his way again, toward one of the most important offices in the world. there are two clues to this modern political miracle. in his origins on a farm in yorba linda, california, and in statements where he has expressed his concepts on the role of the presidency and his views on the position of government. ♪ in discussing his...
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he knew it was better to wait for nixon so that is the nixon defense. it's not a great defense but it didn't make any difference because chu wasn't going to go to paris anyway. >> thank you for coming. quick question you talk a lot about nixon and kissinger and i'm curious whether anti-semitism and give her fine throughout his life in a particular incident or events that caused that and also did you find any issues when he spoke to goal the meir and things of that issue? >> nixing gets on this thing about the number of jewish and the bureau of labor statistics and it's just awful. that's not the only time. nixon had a knee-jerk anti-semitism not typical of his generation or of other presidents. roosevelt and truman use bad words but his was worse. always with nixon was complicated he goes nixon loved gold the meir and she loved him. in 1973 kissinger and nixon are playing at a little bit queue. the nixon administration wants egypt to make some gains against israel because they think it will be a better piece that will come out of it but actually the war
he knew it was better to wait for nixon so that is the nixon defense. it's not a great defense but it didn't make any difference because chu wasn't going to go to paris anyway. >> thank you for coming. quick question you talk a lot about nixon and kissinger and i'm curious whether anti-semitism and give her fine throughout his life in a particular incident or events that caused that and also did you find any issues when he spoke to goal the meir and things of that issue? >> nixing...
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i sent it into nixon. -- in to nixon. later, in 1969, when warren burger was appointed chief justice, i gave the press some of his thoughts. the only thing they had when this announcement broke was this. i sent that into nexen and he hein to nixon and clearly was impressed, but i also understand later that burger was at the 1948 convention. nixon might have seen him there because nixon was a dewey man. and an eisenhower man. he was no bob taft conservative. >> was burger a taft man? [laughter] >> one of the great achievements in my life is the staff of the 1992 primary. >> the story i want you to tell is the important story -- there may not have been a warren burger. >> there may not have been a war in burger -- warren burger. nixon had won in oregon. democratic party battling between mccarthy and kennedy. what happens is we get to wind in late june of 1968, that ear l warren is about to resign and indeed he did resign as chief justice, contingent upon the confirmation of his successor. lyndon johnson immediately named hi
i sent it into nixon. -- in to nixon. later, in 1969, when warren burger was appointed chief justice, i gave the press some of his thoughts. the only thing they had when this announcement broke was this. i sent that into nexen and he hein to nixon and clearly was impressed, but i also understand later that burger was at the 1948 convention. nixon might have seen him there because nixon was a dewey man. and an eisenhower man. he was no bob taft conservative. >> was burger a taft man?...
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we were not, in other words, using this new nixon to supplant other nixons or other new nixons. we were all different people with different takes on nixon's liberalism, and again i won't go into all of the details. we can talk about this in the question and answer. scholarship since the revisionists i think again briefly here two schools of thought. we have what we might call the anti-revisionists who would include ken neth o'riley and elizabeth drew, they talk about his divisiveness and ramping up bussing and the accomplishments in the area of civil rights and domestic policy stemmed from his pragmatism rather than his liberalism. others have used the works of the revisionists to deepen our understanding of specific mixon era policies and i'm thinking of kevin yule and john david skretey who showed urban unrest in the 1960s prompted nixon to adopt an economic development strategy regarding myjority groups that you can see in affirmative action. garrett davis' study of federal education policy showed how nixon's school desegregation efforts were strongly influenced by southern p
we were not, in other words, using this new nixon to supplant other nixons or other new nixons. we were all different people with different takes on nixon's liberalism, and again i won't go into all of the details. we can talk about this in the question and answer. scholarship since the revisionists i think again briefly here two schools of thought. we have what we might call the anti-revisionists who would include ken neth o'riley and elizabeth drew, they talk about his divisiveness and...
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he knew nixon and is sympathetic. also extremely critical of his personality, his policies and his conduct. then there are the negatives in which roger morris' book, which it is finely researched i think it's hobbled by the fact that he sees, tends to see everything in a bad light. then there are the books that i think can only be described as rabid, that would be brodie's book and anthony summers' books. these are the authors for whom nixon could do no good deed or have no decent thought. he was evil was bred in his bone down to his dna. and the mark of the beast on his forehead. that's my -- that would be my assessment of some of those books. and it surprises me, it disappoints me that a lot of nixon scholarships accepts uncritically these books which are based on two or three or four secondary defective sources for a lot of these quintessential nixon stories. so i don't think they're very good scholarship, but i'm not a scholar. i think julie eisenhower's book is a gem that's hiding in plain sight. and because it w
he knew nixon and is sympathetic. also extremely critical of his personality, his policies and his conduct. then there are the negatives in which roger morris' book, which it is finely researched i think it's hobbled by the fact that he sees, tends to see everything in a bad light. then there are the books that i think can only be described as rabid, that would be brodie's book and anthony summers' books. these are the authors for whom nixon could do no good deed or have no decent thought. he...
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johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage. saigon, i've been talking at the table. >> got to get them to paris or you can't have peace. >> johnson knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> somebody in china, they're going an aon and implying. >> anyone with half a brain knows that nixon is behind the efforts to sabotage peace talk because south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser and chennault unless they knew for sure speaking for nixon. >> you just say it's your people don't tell the south vietnamese they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government. >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood. if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. in psaigon, a veteran correspondent was poised to light the news. >> as a
johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage. saigon, i've been talking at the table. >> got to get them to paris or you can't have peace. >> johnson knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating peace. what lbj couldn't prove definitively was that nixon was involved. >> somebody in china,...
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nixon one. if you pull the environmental organizations today it will say the number one president was the republican teddy roosevelt and then richard nixon. it wasn't just epa, it was clean air, it was coastal zone management, endangered species act, almost all of the major environmental legislation was signed by richard nixon at that time. it was certainly driven and put on his desk by democratic congress. he a man named john whitaker was very sympathetic to the cause. he was from california. he was watching what was happening in california with smog in los angeles and the oil spill and other cases. he would never go as far as the democrats and that began to frustrate him. and because he was republican he had a business constituency which wanted things like the supersonic transport and the alaska pipeline which he wanted to go along with. he got frustrated and there is a great tape filled with profanity so i cannot recited right now. i think it is from 73 where he starts spouting, i am not a lo
nixon one. if you pull the environmental organizations today it will say the number one president was the republican teddy roosevelt and then richard nixon. it wasn't just epa, it was clean air, it was coastal zone management, endangered species act, almost all of the major environmental legislation was signed by richard nixon at that time. it was certainly driven and put on his desk by democratic congress. he a man named john whitaker was very sympathetic to the cause. he was from california....
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nixon. the keen university movie classes online due to the coronavirus pandemic, video of the class is courtesy of the school. >> okay guys, we are ready to start. thank you for your patience and for logging into class. again, today remotely during this unpleasant coronavirus situation, which will hopefully pass soon. i'm glad to see you were all well, also you see leave moved out of the dorms, i took a walk through campus today. since we are social distancing here doctor kristin is not here with me in the zoom but she is with you in the video, kuby say hello. there she is. she can answer any questions about the papers afterwards online. today, we get into one of my favorite chapters in the whole year, and that is the chapters, the chapter on richard nixon followed by gerald ford in this presidents and constitution book. the nixon chapter was written by the late stanley cutler. was a professor of history at the university of madison wisconsin. one of the green scholars of the watergate era.
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down anymore than the washington post did nixon and his crimes what nixon down and and. you publish in the book. the documents that nick some very sophisticated team to break into the chilean embassy to break into the watergate several times of the democratic national committee headquarters. what was it the these guys were looking for what they were looking for nixon was like and this and this this is borne out in the new war to get documents in the statements of one of the watergate burglars and it's been kind of known and talked about in historical circles for years but it hasn't penetrated the mainstream media because there was no official paperwork about it what it was was it was an almost one hundred page dossier of cia attempts to kill fidel castro that started in one nine hundred sixty one when riggs new first president vice president facing a tidal action just as he was in seventy two course we're in election year now in this zero sixty he's vice president he's trying to kill castro castro. kill castro using the mafia about in seventy two he's running for preside
down anymore than the washington post did nixon and his crimes what nixon down and and. you publish in the book. the documents that nick some very sophisticated team to break into the chilean embassy to break into the watergate several times of the democratic national committee headquarters. what was it the these guys were looking for what they were looking for nixon was like and this and this this is borne out in the new war to get documents in the statements of one of the watergate burglars...
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nixon i will say there was a division inside the nixon camp. i was either goldwater conservatives in the research writing group is very conservative. most conservative element of the whole nixon campaign. we have liberals in there too. we are deeply divided over how we should do with that and nixon was gone along, which the american people want to crack down on the nonsense. the supported civil rights and all these initiatives and they see that happening another three laws have to be enforced. a poll was taken about 2% of the people in oregon were campaigning to agree with the students on the campus were demonstrating a degree they have a just cause and what they're doing is the right thing. three of the future satellite majority was being formed right there in 1968 in april. so then we moved to may. and merry, richard nixon was in the oregon primary. he had no opposition. so he wiped the floor with everybody. 70% break-in. 22% of rockefeller appeared 4% for nelson. i remember shelly and i were at the work in primary that night. with pat, pat n
nixon i will say there was a division inside the nixon camp. i was either goldwater conservatives in the research writing group is very conservative. most conservative element of the whole nixon campaign. we have liberals in there too. we are deeply divided over how we should do with that and nixon was gone along, which the american people want to crack down on the nonsense. the supported civil rights and all these initiatives and they see that happening another three laws have to be enforced....
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and that made a great impression on nixon. and nixon at the '48 convention was a stasson man. one of his other great memories of the war, even talking to me in the '70s, that he remembered fondly was seeing eleanor roosevelt. he didn't know who it was. he knew that there was a jeep convoy. and he sort of craned his neck to see who it was. and riding in the back of the jeep with no particular protection was eleanor roosevelt. and he had never seen a first lady. and that made a great impression on him. the -- i think the early life -- i'm very partial to it. both in the terms of the formation of nixon's character and his ideas but also because it could correct a lot of the misunderstandings. gary wills memorably writes about driving down to yorba linda to see the birthplace. and he says that driving through this wasteland of oil dereks and used car lots and american flags the size of city blocks, what else would you expect from richard nixon? there is, in fact, yorba linda, whittier in orange county, nixon's youth was idyllic, and he writes in the memoirs that on a clear day, yo
and that made a great impression on nixon. and nixon at the '48 convention was a stasson man. one of his other great memories of the war, even talking to me in the '70s, that he remembered fondly was seeing eleanor roosevelt. he didn't know who it was. he knew that there was a jeep convoy. and he sort of craned his neck to see who it was. and riding in the back of the jeep with no particular protection was eleanor roosevelt. and he had never seen a first lady. and that made a great impression...
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nixon had. nixon had great relations with the press he had ten thousand journalists he called them the ten thousand he could put out anything and they would say and so when we see the mainstream media tilting toward clearly conservative republican candidates we see a lot of times that conservatives are driving the agendas of what few liberal journalists there are because they they create these alternative and they know that's keeping people away from looking like the corruption investigation of the governor and wisconsin i have been busy writing this eight hundred page book and. i was catching up on wisconsin the last few days i'm like oh i don't hear that there's this corruption investigation that could involve the governor where's that you know so but and nixon was the same way he knew you would take the air out of the room with all these outrageous charges you know these people are communists his good friend was filled mccarthy but nixon was smarter than mccarthy he knew you can't go too far
nixon had. nixon had great relations with the press he had ten thousand journalists he called them the ten thousand he could put out anything and they would say and so when we see the mainstream media tilting toward clearly conservative republican candidates we see a lot of times that conservatives are driving the agendas of what few liberal journalists there are because they they create these alternative and they know that's keeping people away from looking like the corruption investigation of...
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is arthur nixon arthur nixon. i'm sorry to say past when he was seven years old he woke up one day with the headache and he goes, oh mom, he goes. i don't feel good. and so it's in several days. what a tragedy in the family. so many people don't know that richard mille house. nixon didn't lose two brothers at a very early age and many people say perhaps it's what gave him the drive and the ambition to do something with his life last but not least. i'm very happy to say that ed nixon is still alive as i told you because he's the author of the book the nixon's and he was born in 1930. so he never lived here, but such great stories. he can tell you about when richard nixon did ask him to take him a cross country ride in the car and he was able to drive the car and one of the favorite things. i kind of like a nixon shared with me is he said to me darlene one of our favorite foods that dad would make for us was beef stew the best beef stew ever. that was so succulent with the vegetables at the beef would just melt in y
is arthur nixon arthur nixon. i'm sorry to say past when he was seven years old he woke up one day with the headache and he goes, oh mom, he goes. i don't feel good. and so it's in several days. what a tragedy in the family. so many people don't know that richard mille house. nixon didn't lose two brothers at a very early age and many people say perhaps it's what gave him the drive and the ambition to do something with his life last but not least. i'm very happy to say that ed nixon is still...
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what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1843 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a crews bell upon which the all american persona as a young man. they would intervene in the lives of individual citizens. much of the citizenry in response to the new deal in general. >> you look at influences like any good musician. the carpenters and barry manilow. his grandmother known as a lifelong republican. nixon himself said in his memoirs, they disdain and stand pat republicans. hannah nixon herself according to melvin small voted for woodrow wilson in 1912. at least in 1916. maybe it's recreational reading. in addition to the l.a. times, good house keeping on the saturday evening post, both of which may have pis america. hoover's america to some degree. some of the members of his committee of 100 helped push his 1946 and 1948 campaigns. frank jorgenson, he said i entrust fdr and distruste
what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1843 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a crews bell upon which the all american persona as a young man. they would intervene in the lives of individual citizens. much of the citizenry in response to the new deal in general. >> you look at influences like any...
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nixon takes two tracks. channels to try to have it both ways where he can respond to what is going on and south vietnam and if the soviets were willing to look the other way, he would look the other way in what the soviets were doing in terms of eating the offensive. sive.ding the offen nixonkissinger and coordinating a video. it goes off well. the message nixon is sending is that we will bomb north vietnam but we want a summit. nixon is proud of his wife. in thishear his pride phone conversation with kissinger. [indiscernible] [laughter] mr. moss: the message goes back. ultimately, both sides were able to look the other way. 8 launchesy operation linebacker, the harbor in the vietnam. nixon did it because he felt if he did not have an escalation, there were not a lot of american troops on the ground anymore in may of 1972. airpower is but he had. nixon felt he had to do something to boost south vietnam. he launches linebacker. there is a massive increase in bombing. and casey 135a tankers. there are b-52s f
nixon takes two tracks. channels to try to have it both ways where he can respond to what is going on and south vietnam and if the soviets were willing to look the other way, he would look the other way in what the soviets were doing in terms of eating the offensive. sive.ding the offen nixonkissinger and coordinating a video. it goes off well. the message nixon is sending is that we will bomb north vietnam but we want a summit. nixon is proud of his wife. in thishear his pride phone...
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so nixon could do no wrong. not to demean or dismiss the book, and then sort of the positive books for jonathan ache ins' book neutral books in which i would put conrad black's recent biography in which he knew nixon and was sympathetic in many ways and he was extremely critical of both his personality, his policies and his conduct and then there are the negatives in which roger morris' book although it is finely researched i think it's hobbled by the fact that he tends to see everything in a bad scompliet then there are the books that can only be described as rabid and that would be sadly, brodie's book and anthony summer's book. these are the authors who nixon could do no good deed or have no decent thought. he was -- he was evil as his bone down to his dna and the mark of the beast on his forehead. that's my -- that would be my assessment of some of those books and it surprises me and disappoints me that a lot of nixon scholarship
so nixon could do no wrong. not to demean or dismiss the book, and then sort of the positive books for jonathan ache ins' book neutral books in which i would put conrad black's recent biography in which he knew nixon and was sympathetic in many ways and he was extremely critical of both his personality, his policies and his conduct and then there are the negatives in which roger morris' book although it is finely researched i think it's hobbled by the fact that he tends to see everything in a...
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nixon. not like. not admire. i do like him and admire him, but love him. so did my mother and father. in our household nixon was god. in my heart richard nixon started when i was 7 years old, and he was running for vice president with dwight eisenhower. i read a child's biography of richard nixon, and it said he was always being picked on and teased in the school yard when he was a child, and i identified with, that may be every child. >> there were lots of old comys that loathed him. even at that age i plait made a vital. they liked to pick on him because he was sensitive. he was a vulnerable human being. he wasn't tough like ike. he wasn't tough like mr. trump. he was a typical -- he was not a typical politician with the thick skin. he was a poet. a sort of artist. intellectual. at every stable of his life, he was a sensitive boy on a school yard, and i identified. there was something about richard nixon that i -- for whatever reason, richard nixon was a born peacemaker. it started in a bi
nixon. not like. not admire. i do like him and admire him, but love him. so did my mother and father. in our household nixon was god. in my heart richard nixon started when i was 7 years old, and he was running for vice president with dwight eisenhower. i read a child's biography of richard nixon, and it said he was always being picked on and teased in the school yard when he was a child, and i identified with, that may be every child. >> there were lots of old comys that loathed him....
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why nixon now? for one reason, selling books is a commercial enterprise and one is that we have an amazing string of 50th anniversary's. this is the 50 year mark of the nixon presidency. 1968 the year he was elected began with the tet offensive in vietnam. sen. mccarthy's-- in new hampshire, robert kennedy, george wallace, lyndon johnson's abdication, the murder of martin luther king, the murder of martin-- of kennedy and the writing of the democratic national convention in chicago which all led up to december-- november 1968 when he was elected. he almost didn't make it. he won by 500,000 votes in one of the closest elections ever and he barely clinched the republican nomination profiting mainly from the blunders of his rivals. michigan gov. george romney. mitt romney's dad was republican front runner until attempting to change his position on the vietnam war. he claimed that he had been brainwashed by the pentagon. romney was considered a bit of a lightweight and this does not persuade a skeptical
why nixon now? for one reason, selling books is a commercial enterprise and one is that we have an amazing string of 50th anniversary's. this is the 50 year mark of the nixon presidency. 1968 the year he was elected began with the tet offensive in vietnam. sen. mccarthy's-- in new hampshire, robert kennedy, george wallace, lyndon johnson's abdication, the murder of martin luther king, the murder of martin-- of kennedy and the writing of the democratic national convention in chicago which all...
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and his people didn't want nixon agreeing and the following three debates. nixon was nixon. and was adversarial attacking kennedy for where he was weak and doing a quite good job. but after the first debate as a communications major, how do you think that the newspapers responded? thing it was a tie. it becomes untie over 60 years. and it becomes kennedy winning the first debate by a mile, but the initial reaction in all of the newspapers was that there was no difference between the two of them. they both did equally well or equally bad the whole story of the kennedy being this wonderful guy, but what did happen? what did happen and what i didn't say was the greatest thing that john kennedy did was run for office. he was a wonderful campaigner. and by staying up and not making any massive mistakes in the first debate. what happened was is democrats said? this guy is a lot better than we thought and might be able to do a good job. so they rallied around the flag. and henry got more. adulation after that first debate because it didn't blow it not because he did great because h
and his people didn't want nixon agreeing and the following three debates. nixon was nixon. and was adversarial attacking kennedy for where he was weak and doing a quite good job. but after the first debate as a communications major, how do you think that the newspapers responded? thing it was a tie. it becomes untie over 60 years. and it becomes kennedy winning the first debate by a mile, but the initial reaction in all of the newspapers was that there was no difference between the two of...
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one of them nixon is tamia more human character nixon you see nixon suffering you see nixon in these tapes having conversations with his daughter. you know, he had a of course he had family i go into some of the family crises they faced. um, but you know, he was a loving family person. ultimately. i mean, i see perhaps in 50 years time. we'll get a different. view of trump, but i'm not sure we'll have the you know, i can't see the human qualities in trump that i can see in nixon. i can't see the suffering. i can't see the basic respect for the system. i certainly can't see the i mean nixon whatever else you think of him was a brilliant mind. it wasn't kissinger who opened up to china, of course, you know, that might not have been such a great idea now that we have problems with china, but that was nixon was a very, you know, creative foreign policy thinker he read deeply about american history. i i'm in perhaps my too close to trump, but i i put them in
one of them nixon is tamia more human character nixon you see nixon suffering you see nixon in these tapes having conversations with his daughter. you know, he had a of course he had family i go into some of the family crises they faced. um, but you know, he was a loving family person. ultimately. i mean, i see perhaps in 50 years time. we'll get a different. view of trump, but i'm not sure we'll have the you know, i can't see the human qualities in trump that i can see in nixon. i can't see...
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richard nixon lost that opportunity. >> you know, nixon once said -- one quick line, richard nixon once said about gerald ford, he played football one too many times without his helmet. not that smart a guy. >> remember how he got to be vice president, and that was agnew's resignation. and there was a lot of talk, knowledgeable talk at the time, and some of nixon's people will tell you it is the case, that ford, he viewed ford as impeachment insurance. that they will never impeach me if gerald ford, and the contempt that you're talking about, is part of that. and, of course, it didn't work. and not only that, i mean, i think where shelby was reading this thing about the son of a -- part, that what we see in gerald ford is one of the most courageous acts by a modern president, to pardon richard nixon. because he knew that -- but he knew that he could lose the presidency if he didn't. it's amazing. >> question, please? >> my name is louisa holden. i'm quinn holden's mother of environmental planning. and i want to thank you for your discussion tonight. and what this does for me is it reall
richard nixon lost that opportunity. >> you know, nixon once said -- one quick line, richard nixon once said about gerald ford, he played football one too many times without his helmet. not that smart a guy. >> remember how he got to be vice president, and that was agnew's resignation. and there was a lot of talk, knowledgeable talk at the time, and some of nixon's people will tell you it is the case, that ford, he viewed ford as impeachment insurance. that they will never impeach...
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and no richard nixon. and it was a real downer for us that he had been left out after all the work he had dope. but i'll tell -- he had done. but i'll tell you, they did us a favor by leaving us out of the news and vaulting everybody else up. and just before that election day nixon himself told the national press -- he was on one of those sunday programs -- that i'm going to, after this election is over, i'm going to take a six month moratorium from politics completely. and i saw nixon a day or so later, and i said, sir, is this wise? i mean, above romney, governor george romney of michigan is ahead of lyndon johnson by eight points in the national polls, he's running far away first for the are palin nomination, and we're going to drop out for six months and do nothing? and nixon said in his own manner, pat, let 'em chew on him for a little while. laugh -- [laughter] and i gather he meant the press corps. and if you read my book, that is exactly what the press did. but, you know, in fairness i put a line i
and no richard nixon. and it was a real downer for us that he had been left out after all the work he had dope. but i'll tell -- he had done. but i'll tell you, they did us a favor by leaving us out of the news and vaulting everybody else up. and just before that election day nixon himself told the national press -- he was on one of those sunday programs -- that i'm going to, after this election is over, i'm going to take a six month moratorium from politics completely. and i saw nixon a day or...
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what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1833 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a kruse bal upon which the all american persona, we see that as a young man, certainly, full of belief and sturdy self-reliance and pep, was tested and challenged by, well, a few things. the mass deprivation and general suffering one saw during great depression, that was no picnic, certainly. the relatively radical effort business the new deal agencies to intervene, some would argue, in the lives of the individual citizens. and finely, the polarization of much of the citizenry in response to the new deal in general. okay? second, the company you keep. richard nixon, the young richard nixon's association with various political mentors, advisers, handlers, fund-raisers, donors and supporters, helped further this what i call, quote, conservative education of richard nixon. >> youian.k anyone ask me who
what are the true roots of nixon's or at least young nixon's political ideology. i have a few ideas. one, it was a new deal era that roughly 1833 and 1941 that encompasses the great depression, the new deal, and the beginning of the second world war. this period formed a kruse bal upon which the all american persona, we see that as a young man, certainly, full of belief and sturdy self-reliance and pep, was tested and challenged by, well, a few things. the mass deprivation and general suffering...
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with you and his people didn't want nixon occurring in the following three debates nixon was nixon and was edadversarial attacking kennedy where he was weekend doing a quite good job. after the first debate how do you think the newspapers responded? it was a tie. it becomes untied over 60 years and it becomes kennedy winning the first debate by a mile but the initial reaction at on all of the newspapers was that there was no difference between the two of them. did equally well or equally bad. the t whole story of the kennedy being a wonderful guy but what did happen and what i didn't say was the greatest thing john kennedy did was to run for office. he was a wonderful campaigner and by staying up and not making any massive mistakes in the first debate what happened was that democrats said this guy is a lot better than we thought and must be able to do good a good job so they rallied around the flag and can need -- kennedy got more adulation after that first debate as he didn't it. not because he didn't do great big because he didn't do badly. >> one last question over here. doctor clea
with you and his people didn't want nixon occurring in the following three debates nixon was nixon and was edadversarial attacking kennedy where he was weekend doing a quite good job. after the first debate how do you think the newspapers responded? it was a tie. it becomes untied over 60 years and it becomes kennedy winning the first debate by a mile but the initial reaction at on all of the newspapers was that there was no difference between the two of them. did equally well or equally bad....
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nixon came in january 1969. what were the efforts that a variety of administration had taken to control the bomb? what the status of the bomb, the the proliferation of nuclear arms around the world, particularly with the superpowers and and how did nixon himself approach those matters on the one hand? but his thoughts about arms control on the other that your questions, of course, get at the very core of the book. so i'll try to just give a snapshot here. let me preface all my remarks today, though. i'm here in the capacity a nonresident fellow since i do have my position at the pentagon, i am obligated to to say that everything i say today or my own opinions and do not reflect those of the department, defense or the united states government. so that said, i will address your questions. of course, the atomic age was born at the end of world war two. so by the sixties we had already been in their arms, an arms race with the soviet union for a couple of decades. but on the eve of the nixon presidency, the united s
nixon came in january 1969. what were the efforts that a variety of administration had taken to control the bomb? what the status of the bomb, the the proliferation of nuclear arms around the world, particularly with the superpowers and and how did nixon himself approach those matters on the one hand? but his thoughts about arms control on the other that your questions, of course, get at the very core of the book. so i'll try to just give a snapshot here. let me preface all my remarks today,...
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he wanted nixon to be seen at his funeral that he was okay with nixon. the funeral marked the first public appearance in washington since watergate. this is what nixon said. he was never satisfied with success and he was never going to be discouraged by failure. nixon was describing woody leis but always describing himself. the first person he saw sitting by his bedside was richard nixon. you'll need an anchor nixon told the recovering mcfarland pointing at the bible next to the bed. after the dedication of his presidential library in 1990, where we are today, nixon told friends who gathered around him afterwards about the time that his grand kids asked him what name he wanted to be called. you can call me anything you want to call me because i've been called everything. this period shows him as a human. it shows him as somebody who struggled through the set backs of a political career and yet came out on the other side of it. nixon in exile is a different man. he's a man who could look back on success as well as failure, on tragedy as well as triumph. o
he wanted nixon to be seen at his funeral that he was okay with nixon. the funeral marked the first public appearance in washington since watergate. this is what nixon said. he was never satisfied with success and he was never going to be discouraged by failure. nixon was describing woody leis but always describing himself. the first person he saw sitting by his bedside was richard nixon. you'll need an anchor nixon told the recovering mcfarland pointing at the bible next to the bed. after the...
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and this is not the first time nixon has used this as a way to bring nixon closer to them. it comes up on the tapes several times. this is the most dramatic instance. this is on the swearing in ceremony. this is happening behind the scenes. later that day richard nixon called his new chief of staff, al hake, and complained there were so many weak people in his cabinet, particularly targeting elliott richardson and george schulz. he then said this, richardson is in the spot where he's going to have to prove he's the white knight in all that bull. he's going to have to try that, he and archie cox. who was sworn in as the watergate prosecutor. and you know well and all that crap, how do you handle that? so that's the same day as the swearing in ceremony. richardson and archibald cox discover the president is going to resist any attempt to make this an independent investigation. within a matter of weeks nixon and hags are trying to find ways to get rid of archibald cox. initially they didn't think much about him, something that doesn't get publicized archibald cox wassal eighth
and this is not the first time nixon has used this as a way to bring nixon closer to them. it comes up on the tapes several times. this is the most dramatic instance. this is on the swearing in ceremony. this is happening behind the scenes. later that day richard nixon called his new chief of staff, al hake, and complained there were so many weak people in his cabinet, particularly targeting elliott richardson and george schulz. he then said this, richardson is in the spot where he's going to...
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nixon hannah nixon died. this is actually i don't have a photo from mrs. nixon's funeral because obviously she's in this. this is when frank nixon died. and 56, the brother's the youngest editor escorting, their mother here in uniform. and foreground, two months before hannah nixon had died. so frank had passed away in the fifties when nixon was vice president. and in 67, in the fall, hannah nixon died. and hannah nixon was the one more than anyone else. graham also who encouraged nixon get another chance to run. you have to do it. you know, don't don't give up. and a lot of sort of writers of nixon will refer to this is kind of like the voice of hannah, like at certain moments in nixon's career. so the voice of hannah, which might actually have been her voice or something inside of him, you know, that inspired him to keep going and. so graham helped to officiate at her funeral in 67 and was there and like hannah graham said, you're going to get another chance. now, graham. graham believe that nixon nixon was
nixon hannah nixon died. this is actually i don't have a photo from mrs. nixon's funeral because obviously she's in this. this is when frank nixon died. and 56, the brother's the youngest editor escorting, their mother here in uniform. and foreground, two months before hannah nixon had died. so frank had passed away in the fifties when nixon was vice president. and in 67, in the fall, hannah nixon died. and hannah nixon was the one more than anyone else. graham also who encouraged nixon get...
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, and nixon will endure forever. i structured this book as asd of shakespearean tragedy, from hubris in january 1973 when he is about to be re-inaugurated through crisis, catastrophe and then in the end the downfall of the president all setting the stage for the downfall of the president. but as you will see, there's an american twist at the end which i'm not going to reveal now but you'll have to read the book. it's not exactly a shakespearean tragedy. as i said it's an american tragedy or drama that is different from a shakespearean tragedy for one important reason. you are going to have to read the book for that. so the other character in the book, very important, is not a human character. it's these tape recordings which really kind of developed a life, i a dynamic of their own, become a monster which nixon cannot control. and ultimately lead to his downfall. i don't think nixon would have been forced to resign if it had not been for those tape recordings because there would have been his version of events and it
, and nixon will endure forever. i structured this book as asd of shakespearean tragedy, from hubris in january 1973 when he is about to be re-inaugurated through crisis, catastrophe and then in the end the downfall of the president all setting the stage for the downfall of the president. but as you will see, there's an american twist at the end which i'm not going to reveal now but you'll have to read the book. it's not exactly a shakespearean tragedy. as i said it's an american tragedy or...
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nixon came to try the mini dress.size. from the best we could find that is how it is that mrs. nixon came to try the mini dress. she also adapted another style that actually started or it's believed to have started in southern california in the glendale area, although some accounts claim it started in london, and that was called the granny dress. what mrs. nixon did was worked with designers and taking different motifs from those granny dresses which were of course evoked a little bit more of a rustic kind of natural feel and adapted it to her own style. of course, she was first lady and so she couldn't appear at receptions at one of those begun gunny sack dresses but she did adapt it and i think it looked quite flattering on her. she was also a first lady unusual from all of her predecessors in that she literally touched people. when pat nixon went along a rope line she did not merely shake hands. she hugged people, she kissed people, she was very physically demonstrative. what this led to was her asking designers to
nixon came to try the mini dress.size. from the best we could find that is how it is that mrs. nixon came to try the mini dress. she also adapted another style that actually started or it's believed to have started in southern california in the glendale area, although some accounts claim it started in london, and that was called the granny dress. what mrs. nixon did was worked with designers and taking different motifs from those granny dresses which were of course evoked a little bit more of a...
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in preferred him over richard nixon. there was a contest in 1960 between the two ends of the organizations that were really pushing you politics on the right were not friendly to richard nixon. and to make matters worse, there is group of ultraconservatives called the syndicate who were really goldwater rights taking the marching orders from clifton white who is a former why offer and the republicans were not friendly to nixon either. and so this created a problem for nixon as far as is reach out to young voters. especially 1968 when we began to see young voters really infusing the democrats with a sense that that with swiss going to be a coalition of antiwar activists and liberals. that will push campaigns like eugene mccarthy, and one person said that eugene mccarthy was the biggest thing that has happened to youth since marijuana. in a lot of ways that was the concern for richard nixon was that young voters were going to become a problem for his vision of a conservative future. the other major obstacle for nixon was a
in preferred him over richard nixon. there was a contest in 1960 between the two ends of the organizations that were really pushing you politics on the right were not friendly to richard nixon. and to make matters worse, there is group of ultraconservatives called the syndicate who were really goldwater rights taking the marching orders from clifton white who is a former why offer and the republicans were not friendly to nixon either. and so this created a problem for nixon as far as is reach...
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johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage hanoi -- i mean saigon not to come to the table. good god, we want them over in paris parish. we've got to get them to parish or we can't have a peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating peace. what lbj couldn't prove conclusively is if nixon was involved. >> anyone with half a brain knows that richard nixon is behind this effort to sabotage the peace talks because the south vietnamese would not listen to a fundraiser, anna chennault, unless they knew for sure that she was speaking for nixon. >> you just see it your people don't tell the south vietnamese that they're going to get any better deal out of the united states government. >> one fact remained unspoken but well understood. if this story hit the news, richard nixon's white house dreams would explode in scandal. in saigon, a veteran war correspondent was p
johnson wants nixon to think he's got the goods on nixon himself. nixon wants johnson to think he has nothing to do with this. >> my god, i would never do anything to encourage hanoi -- i mean saigon not to come to the table. good god, we want them over in paris parish. we've got to get them to parish or we can't have a peace. >> lbj knew there was collusion with the south vietnamese government to keep them from negotiating peace. what lbj couldn't prove conclusively is if nixon was...
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typical nixon. nixon who is very shy man tried to make up for it. 30-minute, he got in the guest list, had some intern, probably researched it. of course, it worked. i was flattered by that. i felt better of richard nixon who i mostly hated. [laughter] >> after that. >> one of the question as an author i hate the most, why another book, how many thousands of books about abraham lincoln so i'm not going to ask you that. >> that's okay. >> no, i'll ask it in a different way. what inspired you to write this book about richard nixon? >> i worked for the washington post company. nixon was the devil. he just was. a lot of people, you know, and i shared that vision, but -- [laughter] before but i thought, you know, i bet you there's another side to him and he's such a complicated character that i thought john machump said, why don't you write about nixon and i said why not, i spent the first two years wining about it, complaining about it, i didn't like the guy, he was a bad guy. and but after a couple of
typical nixon. nixon who is very shy man tried to make up for it. 30-minute, he got in the guest list, had some intern, probably researched it. of course, it worked. i was flattered by that. i felt better of richard nixon who i mostly hated. [laughter] >> after that. >> one of the question as an author i hate the most, why another book, how many thousands of books about abraham lincoln so i'm not going to ask you that. >> that's okay. >> no, i'll ask it in a different...
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nixon and president nixon had that vision and modeling growing up. i wanted to talk a little bit about also his two daughters trish and julie who represented the younger generation of republican women who strongly believed that women should be able to do whatever they wanted to just like both of their parents did. women could be in the workplace and also at home to do it all. they supported like her mother's , to elevate women in the government and working world. here we have president nixon with barbara hackman franklin and her job was to get more women into higher-level government positions. when barbara franklin comes into the nixon administration into the west wing to do her work, i will tell you more about that, context between barbara's move into the nixon administration as staff assistant to the president this assignment to get more women in government, keep in mind we had the advent of the birth control pill in 1960 freeing women up we have the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, the feminist movement. we have all of these things swirling
nixon and president nixon had that vision and modeling growing up. i wanted to talk a little bit about also his two daughters trish and julie who represented the younger generation of republican women who strongly believed that women should be able to do whatever they wanted to just like both of their parents did. women could be in the workplace and also at home to do it all. they supported like her mother's , to elevate women in the government and working world. here we have president nixon...
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why nixon now? we live in a world that richard nixon made. that opening to china, that planet stunning handshake set people on earth on a new course. it was the first great crack of the cold war. that indispensable step toward this integrated world economy grant them a measure of peace. you can hear him on the tapes talking about this vision. losing the 1962 race for governor of california, he held the famous last press conference and said you won't have nixon to kick around anymore. he moved to new york. as an international lawyer, he roamed for pepsi-cola. he would stop and talk to u.s. diplomats and foreign statesmen. many of them he knew or would -- as on international missions vice president under eisenhower. like one great postgraduate seminar. in 1967 in an article in foreign affairs magazine, nixon described the world to come. monolithic communism is doomed. there is a new age coming. the new information is not around a technological revolution. it will be a computer revolution. this edge will require freedom, intellectual nimbleness,
why nixon now? we live in a world that richard nixon made. that opening to china, that planet stunning handshake set people on earth on a new course. it was the first great crack of the cold war. that indispensable step toward this integrated world economy grant them a measure of peace. you can hear him on the tapes talking about this vision. losing the 1962 race for governor of california, he held the famous last press conference and said you won't have nixon to kick around anymore. he moved...
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into nixon's soul. no good comes of peering into nixon's soul, although we're very tempted to do it, because so much was accomplished on his watch and we want to know, did he really mean it, because then of course, after 1971 he turns around and pulls the rug out from under and kind of turns against the environment, so what's going on, and i guess the point i want to make is that nixon's true feelings about the matter really don't matter very much and indeed in many ways distract us from the bigger picture. one of the bigger pieces you want to look at what the accomplishments are of the administration you need to look at the accomplishments of the staff and the activities of a very active staff including john ehrlichman, head of the domestic council, john whitaker, his assistant and the point man on the environment, russell trayne, first in the department and head on quality and william ruckleshouse, first director of the epa, and i could add two others who were active in environmental policy, and reall
into nixon's soul. no good comes of peering into nixon's soul, although we're very tempted to do it, because so much was accomplished on his watch and we want to know, did he really mean it, because then of course, after 1971 he turns around and pulls the rug out from under and kind of turns against the environment, so what's going on, and i guess the point i want to make is that nixon's true feelings about the matter really don't matter very much and indeed in many ways distract us from the...
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nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university of southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he had caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability with take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the historic 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20th, 1969. dwight has written a terrific new memoir. the president's man, which you could see here to my left. much of it deals with his work with president nixon. the presidents man as without the about one of the most important contributions to the understanding of the nixon presidency and president nixon as a person that has yet been written. dwight will speak this evening with frank. frank, joined the nixon white house in the summer of 1971 is a white house fellow, assigned to counselors to the president, donald rumsfeld, and bob hinch. he then worked for -- domestic council staff. along with colonel brendan and a handful of other staff members, he was aske
nixon. dwight was born in kansas, attended the university of southern california and joined the nixon for governor team in 1962 at 21 years old. he had caught the political bug, and his hard work and uncanny ability with take him to nixon's side throughout the entirety of the historic 1968 campaign and into the white house on january 20th, 1969. dwight has written a terrific new memoir. the president's man, which you could see here to my left. much of it deals with his work with president...
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nixon and mrs. nixon and as you say in the book, it was him getting to know you and to trust you because the jobs you did were well done that made him at ease with you and it was that ease that sort of characterized the relationship and and the closeness of it. yes as the clock goes ahead here and you'll find this in the book. after in 1967 as i after i become his personal aid, it's just the two of us traveling all over the country. no, no other aids or anything occasionally pat buchanan might go if there is a big speech or ray price one of the other speech writers, but for the most part it was just the two of us criss crossing the nation doing political events and so forth and for a young man, like myself who at this time is 26 years old at that juncture, you know, it was just one phenomenal education. today that role is sort of known white and well known as a body man. i think in those days when the media was just travel was becoming easier and politics was picking up into a media enterprise the r
nixon and mrs. nixon and as you say in the book, it was him getting to know you and to trust you because the jobs you did were well done that made him at ease with you and it was that ease that sort of characterized the relationship and and the closeness of it. yes as the clock goes ahead here and you'll find this in the book. after in 1967 as i after i become his personal aid, it's just the two of us traveling all over the country. no, no other aids or anything occasionally pat buchanan might...